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The 21st Annual Cine Las Americas International Film Festival
May 2 – 6, 2018

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New Releases Cine Las Americas presents a selection of fifteen narrative and documentary features by the finest emerging and established filmmakers to audiences in Central Texas. This year’s selections represent fifteen countries’ participation in production and co-production of the films, and highlight a diversity of themes, genres, and styles characteristic of contemporary national and international cinema trends.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
OPENING NIGHT: El último traje	OPENING NIGHT: The Last Suit	Pablo Solarz	Spain/ Argentina	92 min
CLOSING NIGHT: Kayak to Klemtu	CLOSING NIGHT: Kayak to Klemtu	Zoe Hopkins	Canada	90 min
Arábia	Araby	João Dumans, Affonso Uchoa	Brazil	98 min
Cocote	Cocote	Nelson Carlo De Los Santos Arias	Dominican Republic	106 min
El vendedor de orquídeas	The Orchid Seller	Lorenzo Vigas	Venezuela/ Mexico	75 min
Estiu 1993	Summer 1993	Carla Simón	Spain	96 min
Gringo Rojo	Red Gringo	Miguel Ángel Vidaurre	Chile	68 min
La memoria de mi padre	My Father’s Memory	Rodrigo Bacigalupe Lazo	Chile	87 min
Las hijas de Abril	April’s Daughter	Michel Franco	Mexico	103 min
Los versos del olvido	Oblivion Verses	Alireza Khatami	France/ The Netherlands/ Germany/ Chile	92 min
Mi mejor amigo	My Best Friend	Martín Deus	Argentina	90 min
Nadie	Nobody	Miguel Coyula	Cuba	70 min
Niñas araña	Spider Thieves	Guillermo Helo	Chile	94 min
Pariente	Guilty Men	Iván D. Gaona	Colombia	115 min
Zama	Zama	Lucrecia Martel	Argentina/ Brazil/ Spain/ France/ The Netherlands/ Mexico/ Portugal/ USA	115 min
Narrative Feature Competition Cine Las Americas presents a selection of five films from emerging and promising talent, including selections from all over the Americas and Europe in a variety of genres and forms. The works screened in this category are eligible for both a jury award and an audience award for Best Narrative Feature.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
El vigilante	The Night Guard	Diego Ros	Mexico	75 min
Jovens Infelizes ou Um Homem que Grita Não é Um Urso que Dança	Young and Miserable or a Man Screaming Is Not a Dancing Bear	Thiago B. Mendonça	Brazil	127 min
Marisa en los bosques	Marisa in the Woods	Antonio Morales	Spain	83 min
Tourments d’amour	Torments of Love	Caroline Jules	France/ Guadeloupe/ French West Indies	54 min
Vigilia	Being Awake	Julieta Noemí Ledesma	Argentina/ Uruguay	109 min
Documentary Features Competition Cine Las Americas presents a selection of five documentaries on a wide variety of topics, representing diversity in audio design, narrative style, and formal technique, with the common thread of including themes and points of view that are often underrepresented in popular media. The works screened in this category are eligible for both a jury award and an audience award for Best Documentary Feature.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
52 Segundos	52 Seconds	Javier Andrade	Ecuador	93 min
El proyecto	The Project	Alejandro Alonso	Cuba	60 min
Estado de Exceção	State of Exception	Jason O’Hara	Brazil/ Canada	89 min
My Bolivia, Remembering What I Never Knew	My Bolivia, Remembering What I Never Knew	Rick Tejada-Flores	USA/ Bolivia	58 min
Nada queda sino nuestra ternura	Nothing Is Left but Our Tenderness	Sébastien Jallade	Peru	69 min
Hecho en Tejas Cine Las Americas presents “Hecho en Tejas,” a series of films and videos shot and/or produced in Texas, to showcase the wide variety of work being produced in the state by filmmakers with varied backgrounds. One feature film and seven short films are scheduled during this year’s festival. For a ninth consecutive year, Cine Las Americas is pleased to count on a partnership with the Texas Archive of the Moving Image (TAMI) to present a jury award to the best “Hecho en Tejas” film.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas)	A Strike and an Uprising (in Texas)	Anne Lewis	USA	66 min
Atmahaú Pakmát	Atmahaú Pakmát	Cameron G. Quevedo	USA	25 min
Autopista Norte	North Highway	Andrés F. Torres	USA	12 min
Calling	Calling	Artemis Anastasiadou	USA	16 min
Hacia el sol	Towards the Sun	Monica Santis	UK/USA	20 min
Hakla	Stammer	Tania Romero	USA	20 min
Retornados	The Returned	Sarah M Kuck, Meredith Hoffman	Honduras/ USA	17 min
The Allied King	The Allied King	Jason Outenreath	Mexico/ USA	7 min
Narrative Shorts Competition Cine Las Americas presents the narrative short film competition, which represents some of the most powerful and compelling work programmed at the festival, from the abstract to the realistic, the tragic to the romantic, and everything in between. These films will open for features during the festival, and are eligible for a jury award for Best Narrative Short.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Capacocha	Capacocha	Tomás Pernich	Argentina	15 min
La hora de la merienda	Teatime	Alba González de Molina	Spain	18 min
La suerte del salao	Unlucky’s Luck	Felipe Holguín Caro	Colombia	16 min
Macanao	Macanao	Clarissa Duque	Venezuela	12 min
My Soul is Old	My Soul is Old	Claudia González-Rubio	Mexico	19 min
Documentary Shorts Competition Cine Las Americas presents the documentary short film competition, which includes some of the most powerful and compelling work programmed at the festival, representing individual and community topics and concerns in their contemporary contexts. These films will open for features during the festival, and are eligible for a jury award for Best Documentary Short.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Abigail	Abigail	Isabel Penoni, Valentina Homem	Brazil	17 min
Den Himmel Berühren	Touch the Sky	Rosa Baches	Spain/ Germany	25 min
Palenque	Palenque	Sebastián Pinzón Silva	Colombia	26 min
Sigo acá	I’m Still Here	Tana Gilbert	Chile	15 min
Umunhum	Umunhum	Andy Miller, Robin Moore	USA	12 min
Ambulante Showcase Cine Las Americas presents a special showcase in partnership with Ambulante, a non-profit organization that focuses on promoting documentary film as a tool for social and cultural transformation. Each of the documentary films in this series tackles issues that resonate not only in Mexico, but also internationally. The films selected reflect both organizations’ missions, in particular, support of documentary filmmaking as a means to promote discourse around important contemporary issues.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Batallas íntimas	Intimate Battles	Lucía Gajá	Mexico	85 min
El sembrador	The Sower	Melissa Elizondo	Mexico	86 min
Mi vida dentro	My Life Inside	Lucía Gajá	Mexico	120 min
Nos faltan	Missing	Lucía Gajá, Emilio Ramos	Mexico	5 min
Femme Frontera Showcase In collaboration with Femme Frontera, Cine Las Americas presents the 2017 Femme Frontera Filmmaker Showcase. The selection includes women filmmakers from all over the world who challenge stereotypes and false perspectives about women, gender roles, people of color, and the LGBTQ+ community. The Femme Frontera showcase compliments Cine Las Americas’ mission of promoting cross-cultural understanding by expanding the regions of the world that are represented in this year’s programs.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Child, Bride, Mother: Nigeria	Child, Bride, Mother: Nigeria	Stephanie Sinclair, Nichole Sobecki	Nigeria	10 min
Do not Come to Europe	Do not Come to Europe	Minna Lundberg, Hanna Pousette, Pontus Joneström	Sweden/ Uganda	13 min
Filip	Filip	Nathalie Alvarez Mesen	Sweden	11 min
That Day Will Come	That Day Will Come	Sarah Hope	USA	7 min
Raven	Raven	Razelle Benally	USA	11 min
We Did not Fall from the Sky	We Did not Fall from the Sky	Tabs Breese, Georgia Oakley	India/ UK	26 min
Windows	Windows	Maru Buendia-Senties	USA	13 min
Official Selection Panorama, Features Cine Las Americas presents a diverse array of important films, which we consider essential to share with Central Texas audiences. This year’s Panorama feature film selection includes ten documentary titles. Collectively, the films represent innovative and independent filmmakers in compliment to the rest of the festival’s programs; they showcase a variety of traditionally underrepresented cultures and issues, personal experiences, new perspectives, and aesthetic innovation.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Abrazos imborrables	Unforgettable Hugs	Pablo Hadis	Argentina	93 min
Ceux qui viendront, l’entendront	Those Who Come, Will Hear	Simon Plouffe	Canada	77 min
El reino de la Sirena	The Mermaid Kingdom	Luis Rincón	Mexico/ Nicaragua	75 min
Jeffrey	Jeffrey	Yanillys Perez	Dominican Republic/ France	78 min
La selva negra	The Modern Jungle	Charles Fairbanks, Saul Kak	Mexico/ USA	71 min
Olancho	Olancho	Chris Valdes, Ted Griswold	Honduras/ USA	70 min
Out of State	Out of State	Ciara Lacy	USA	82 min
Por los camiones del sur	On Southern Buses	Sven Kirschlager, Sirio Magnabosco	Germany/ Mexico	93 min
Si yo muero primero	If I Die First	Rodolfo Muñoz	Ecuador	107 min
Ukamau y Ké	That’s How It Is, and What!	Andrés Ramírez	Ecuador/ Bolivia	86 min
Official Selection Panorama, Shorts Cine Las Americas presents a diverse array of important films, which we consider essential to share with Central Texas audiences. This year’s Panorama short film selection includes nineteen titles including narrative, documentary, experimental, and animated works. Collectively, the films represent innovative and independent filmmakers in compliment to the rest of the festival’s programs; they showcase a variety of traditionally underrepresented cultures and issues, personal experiences, new perspectives, and aesthetic innovation.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com	2 Spirit Dreamcatcher Dot Com	Thirza Cuthand	Canada	5 min
Beneath the Trees	Beneath the Trees	Crystal Avila	USA	20 min
Casting in Jaguey Grande	Casting in Jaguey Grande	Thomas Winston	Cuba/ USA	15 min
DACAmented	DACAmented	St. Clair Detrick-Jules	USA	17 min
Detroit’s Rivera	Detroit’s Rivera	Julio Ramos	USA	35 min
Gifts of Silver	Gifts of Silver	Eddie Frost	Chile/ UK	17 min
Kat Waj	I Love You	Teresa Jiménez	Guatemala	18 min
Kitci Nehirowiskwew	The Great Atikamekw Lady	Sipi Flamand	Canada	5 min
Lecciones de vuelo	Flying Lessons	Patricio Pino Hernández	Chile	27 min
Mariah ¡qué baile!	Dance, Mariah!	Anita Abbasi, Martin Baena	Canada	13 min
Merê	Merê	Urânia Munzanzu	Brazil	17 min
Nacimientos	Giving Birth	Analicia López	Canada/ Panama	8 min
Nan Isht Aiokpachi	The Gift	Steven Paul Judd	USA	7 min
Ni una sola línea	Not Even a Line	Víctor E.D. Somoza	Spain	17 min
Poliangular	Poliangular	Alexandra Castellanos Solís	Mexico	8 min
Polvo de estrellas	Stardust	Aldo Sotelo Lázaro	Mexico	14 min
Porgies & Bass	Porgies & Bass	Thomas Barnes	USA	15 min
Taller protegido nº19	Protected Workshop #19	Danielle Hebscher, Fernando De Negro	Canada/ Argentina	48 min
Tengo talento	Dance with Your Heart	Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi	Cuba/ USA	10 min
Music Videos Cine Las Americas presents a selection of fifteen music videos, representing diverse genres of music and filmmaking styles. The selection includes a set of five music videos in competition; five music videos in official selection, non-competition; and a special presentation of videos by the Mexican-based production company StereoSonique @stereosonico. The competition selections are eligible for an audience award for Best Music Video.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
All Nations Rise	All Nations Rise	Lyla June Johnston	USA	5 min
Back Again	Back Again	Andres Ibañez Diaz Infante	Mexico	3 min
Barlovento	Barlovento	Juanchi González	Puerto Rico	4 min
Black Lipstick	Black Lipstick	Bernabé Bolaños	USA	4 min
Blueboy	Blueboy	Andres Ibañez Diaz Infante, Stacy Perskie	Mexico	3 min
Campesino	Campesino	Shireen Alihaji	USA	3 min
Como quisiera	Como quisiera	Andres Ibañez Diaz Infante	USA	4 min
Gospel No. 1	Gospel No. 1	Shireen Alihaji, Brandy Young	USA	5 min
Make It Right (Dile)	Make It Right (Dile)	Olmeca	USA	4 min
Marea de Lumbre	Tide of the Flame	Luis Horacio Pineda	USA	4 min
Never Been Alone	Never Been Alone	Giovany Revelle	USA	3 min
No Regreso	No Regreso	Hugo Rubiano	USA/ Colombia	6 min
Sobrenatural	Sobrenatural	Vadim Lasca	Venezuela	4 min
Todavía	Todavía	Andres Ibañez Diaz Infante	Mexico	4 min
Vía Láctea	Vía Láctea	Andres Ibañez Diaz Infante, Stacy Perskie	Mexico	4 min
Emergencia Youth Film Festival Cine Las Americas presents the 2018 Emergencia Youth Film Festival. As a celebration of filmmakers on the rise, the Emergencia Youth Film Competition represents a special section of the festival showcasing works by filmmakers 19 years or younger. This year’s program includes special presentations by members of this year’s Youth Jury Members (youth from Latinitas and PHS Productions) and a retrospective film by the Creative Action Youth Cinema Collective. We are also pleased to present the winning PSAs from this year’s YouthCam Contest. The Emergencia Youth Competition lineup represents a selection of eighteen titles from the USA and abroad. The films in competition are eligible for an audience award for Best Emergencia Youth Film.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
A Tale of Four Sisters	A Tale of Four Sisters	Emily Silva	USA	2 min
A World in Motion	A World in Motion	Khue Tran, Makayla Moore, An Nguyen	USA	3 min
Alone	Alone	Sara Eustaquio	USA/ Portugal	1.5 min
Blanche’s Bichon Buzz	Blanche’s Bichon Buzz	Isabella Caroline Sharp	USA	2 min
Calavera	Calavera	Adele Rankin	USA	5 min
Carhop	Carhop	Alexander Puga, Monica Matute, Gabriella Gonzalez, Jewel Berrios	USA	6.5 min
Celestial Anomaly	Celestial Anomaly	Jose Miranda, Abraham Serrano	USA	3 min
Desconectada	Disconnected	Matheus Bosco	Brazil	5 min
Enjoy the Show	Enjoy the Show	Gabby Fiszman, Dina Katgara	USA	4 min
Find a Way	Find a Way	Akil Carrillo, Ellie Aronica	USA	4.5 min
Hart Immigration Movie	Hart Immigration Movie	Hart Elementary Students	USA	5 min
Latinitas Video	Latinitas Video	Latinitas Magazine	USA	1.5 min
Lilly Hits the Road	Lilly Hits the Road	The Bum Family	Canada	5 min
Memoria de los Revolucionarios	Memories of the Revolution	Miguel Salazar	USA	1.5 min
Re-Painting the Mission	Re-Painting the Mission	Akil Carillo	USA	3.5 min
Still Love	Still Love	Alexander Puga, Monica Matute	USA	5 min
The Rich Man	The Rich Man	Say Sí Middle School Group Project	USA	3 min
The Trail	The Trail	YCC Group Project	USA	5 min
They Said, But.	They Said, But.	Marie Lambiase, Rauliz Paez, Rebecca Unubun, Rebecca Vu, Sophia Quigley, Tiffany Cespedes, Yeison DeLeon	USA	1 min
What Now?	What Now?	Gregory Aragon	USA	3 min
White Noise	White Noise	Say Sí Middle School Group Project	USA	0.5 min
YouthCam Student PSAs	YouthCam Student PSAs	Var. Travis County High Schools	USA
Latinitas Special VR Documentary Presentation In collaboration with Latinitas, Cine Las Americas presents “Latinx Culture in East Austin,” a VR documentary. Students and mentors of Latinitas explore Latinx culture in East Austin by documenting longtime East Austin establishments and interviewing locals.
Original Title	English Title	Director	Country	Runtime
Latinx Culture in East Austin	Latinx Culture in East Austin	VR Cine Chicas Cohort	USA